American PicturesquePenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
Contents
The Picturesque Aesthetic AN INTRODUCTION | 8 |
Eclecticism and the Multiplication of Feelings in Forms | 8 |
Reading Forms SYMBOLISM IN PICTURESQUE EFFECT | 8 |
Reading the Human Body THE DRAMATIZATION OF PICTURESQUE EFFECT | xxix |
An Art of the Scene | 11 |
The Body as Narrative in American Genre Painting | 14 |
Space as a Verb FRAME AND NARRATOR IN LANDSCAPES AND INTERIORS | 18 |
Comparing the Picturesque Arts ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AS PAINTING | 34 |
The Gendered American Dream House | 65 |
The Picturesque City | 65 |
Walden as Picturesque Narrative | 70 |
CONCLUSION | 88 |
NOTES | 102 |
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY | 120 |
INDEX | 132 |
Comparing the Picturesque Arts LITERATURE AS PAINTING | 65 |
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A. J. Downing aesthetic American genre painting AMERICAN PICTURESQUE beauty becomes Beecher body Catskills Central Park character Cole's Color Plate COMPARING THE PICTURESQUE complex contrast Cottage culture dark defined designed discourse dishevelment domestic Downing's dramatic Emerson environment Essays example expression figures Fitz Hugh Lane foliage foreground forest forms FRAME AND NARRATOR Frederic Church genre painting George Caleb Bingham Gilpin Gothic Harriet Beecher Stowe human ideal images inches John lake landscape architecture Landscape Gardening light luminist mask mise-en-scène Moby-Dick Montgomery Place mountain Museum of Art narrative NARRATOR IN LANDSCAPES natural New-York Historical Society Oil on canvas Olmsted and Kimball painters picture picturesque art PICTURESQUE EFFECT Poe's river rural scenery scenes sequence shadow sketch social space Stowe street style sublime surfaces synecdoches Thomas Cole Thoreau tion transformation trees turesque University Press urban viewer villa vista visual Walden wilderness William William Sidney Mount York
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